In February 2005, Rosemarie Essa was in a minor car accident, and though she suffered no physical injuries she died shortly afterwards at a Cleveland hospital. Her best friend, Eva McGregor, suspected Rosemarie's husband, Yazeed Essa, had tampered with her calcium supplements the morning of the day she died. Tests on the pills revealed Rosemarie had died of cyanide poisoning. But when police went to charge Essa, they learned he had fled the country, resulting in an international manhunt. “48 Hours" Correspondent Troy Roberts reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 6/1/2013. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened to Rosemarie Essa?
Collier Boyle was lying awake at night when he heard something horrible. It was going through your mind at that time.
Where's my mother? She would never, ever leave her children.
His best hope? To team up with a middle-aged detective with a chip on his shoulder. I got a partner now. Somebody who's going to help me find out what happened to my mother.
His whole life is a lie.
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Some people get on a plane and they skip town. Go to the other side of the world. It's almost a cat and mouse game. A lot of countries, a lot of miles, and that's where a lot of this starts. I've been working international fugitives with the FBI about 26 years. We've arrested a lot of bad guys. It pumps up your adrenaline.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime case, and it was certainly one of the tougher ones I ever worked on.
When first responders arrived at the scene of Rosie's car accident, they found her on the brink of unconsciousness, slumped in the driver's side seat, clutching her open cell phone. She was trying to call her husband.
Yazeed Issa was what every woman dreams of, of the perfect man.
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Chapter 2: How did Yazeed Essa become a fugitive?
When the police interviewed him, I think it really flipped him out.
The proof, she says, came just days later when Yazeed Issa vanished.
I just knew right then he did it. He did something to hurt Rosie, and he's gone.
And when the lab results came back, police discovered Yazeed Issa had good reason to run. The evidence was in those calcium capsules. She died of cyanide poisoning. In the second week of Yazeed Issa's murder trial, the state focuses on his bizarre disappearance and on a startling piece of evidence Dominic and Julie DiPuccio discovered in his house almost immediately afterwards.
I noticed that there was an envelope on the table from the passport department and it had been ripped open.
And I just, I looked at my wife and I just said to her, I said, he's gone.
We found out that he fled and we tried and tried and tried to find him.
Like a needle in a haystack it felt like sometimes. And it was killing us not knowing.
After Yazeed disappeared, the DiPuccios took on an even bigger burden, making a home for Yaz and Rosie's children, Armand and Lena. They already had four children of their own.
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